Believe it or not, according to Publish0x stats for April, 80,000 users of this platform - including me and you - are ghosts! We exist, but we don't exist. We write comments, and posts, hitting likes or dislikes, but we don't tip ourselves or the authors. Weird, right? Welcome to the twilight zone!

We have repeatedly posted on issues regarding user interactivity on Publish0x. In our previous posts, we concentrated on qualitative indicators, showing clearly that users do not behave as expected. We suggested that the Publish0x team should be paying more attention to the usage data of the platform. It was a matter of time these qualitative data to be showing up as quantitative data as well.

Here is the weird thing that happened on April. The monthly Publish0x report, reads for the month: '730,706 tips were made by 16,360 different users... 17,207 users joined the site.' Do you notice the discrepancy? 17,207 users joined the platform, but only 16,360 users tipped even one post. What happened to the rest 847 users who signed up? That's about how many new sign-ups Publish0x makes in two days. And what happened to the 80,000 or so users who have joined the platform until March? Did they vanish? Did they quit?

Here is another weird thing: 16,360 users generated 730,706 tips. That's roughly 45 tips for the whole month, or about 1.5 tips on average per user per day. Is this some kind of a strategy of new users, tipping one or two posts, although they are allowed to tip 6 posts per day? And how did they get to that strategy?

Another weird thing we have pointed out in the past is that although new users are signing up each day, the number of tips offered daily remains impressively steady, at about 23,000-25,000 tips.

So, are we all ghosts?